Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Sidney Lumet

PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2007

This black-hearted neo-noir shouldn’t work nearly as well as it does. The surface noise is straight out of the botched heist playbook: powe...

Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection

PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2007

Charles Burnett’s 1977 UCLA thesis Killer of Sheep has long been an invisible film. It was heaped with praise by the lucky few who saw it b...

Terror's Advocate

Barbet Schroeder

PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2007

It’s not every man who can claim a ringing endorsement from Pol Pot himself, but Jacques Vérges is just that special. In a bizarre and leng...

Love in the Time of Cholera

Mike Newell

PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2007

If you’ve ever felt threatened by the "magic” in "magic realism” then your cinematic prayers just got answered. The immensely gratifying no...

Breakfast with Scot

Laurie Lynd

PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2007

It could have been worse. This gay family comedy is not especially funny and not particularly brilliant but it’s warm and friendly enough t...

Into Great Silence

Philip Groning

PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2007

I would have thought there were things I’d rather do than watch two hours and 40 minutes of silent monks, but you have to hand it to Philip...

Darfur Now

Theodore Braun

PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2007

The title of this movie is slightly misleading. It’s not about Darfur now; it’s about the activism and legal manoeuvring trying to help sta...

Burt Lancaster Signature Collection

PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2007

We all know Burt Lancaster as the left-leaning movie star who could do action and drama in equal measure. What we didn’t know was that five...